Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court November 1797
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: November 1797

November 14, 1797

    The grand jury presented the following:

    Surveyor of the road from tho Big Lick to Thomas Madison's;

    Surveyor of the Road from the Big Lick down the Bedford Road to Mr. McCrery's;

    From the fork of the Catawba at Englehart's to Mr. Tapscott's;

    From Capt. John Smyth's on James River to Pattonsburg, for not keeping roads
in repair.

    True bill against John Hamilton for breach of the peace.

    True bill aganist [sic] John Green for breach of the peace.

    John Cole fined for not appearing to serve on the grand jury.


November 15, 1797
    John Moore placed under bond for his good behavior.

    Peter Circle granted license to keep an ordinary at his house.

    James Mason, Gent., late Sheriff, again took oath of a Justice of the Peace.


November 16, 1797

    It appearing to the court that the small pox hath broken out on the body of
James Bratton, who is now in the town, it is ordered that inoculation for the
same be prohibited. Sheriff ordered to remove James Bratton to some convenient
place in the County to prevent the spreading of the disease, and all persons
prohibited from going near or having any intercourse with the said Bratton, and
the place to which he is removed is appointed a hospital for the reception of
any other persons who may take the said disease.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Annals of Southwest Virginia
1769-1800

BY LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

Member of American Historical Association, Virginia Historical Society; Alumnus
University of Virginia and Tulane University (Louisiana); Member American Bar
Association, Virginia State Bar Association

Author of

HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
1740-1786

WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA
1777-1870

PUBLISHED BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
1929

COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

MANUFACTURED COMPLETE BY THE
KINGSPORT PRESS
KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE
United States of America


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